In the shadow of slavery
Subtitle: Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world
By: Judith A. Carney, Richard Nicholas Rosomoff.
Contributors: Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas, 1956-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780520257504
Subjects: Blacks -- Ethnobotany -- America -- History; Blacks -- Ethnobotany -- Africa -- History; Slaves -- America -- History; Ethnobotany -- America -- History; Ethnobotany -- Africa -- History; Plants, Edible -- America -- History; Plants, Edible -- Africa -- History; Medicinal plants -- America -- History; Medicinal plants -- Africa -- History; America -- Civilization -- African influences
Description: xiv, 280 p., [7] p. of plates : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Food and the African past; title: African plants on the move; title: African food crops and the Guinea trade; title: African food and the Atlantic crossing; title: Maroon subsistence strategies; title: The Africanization of plantation food systems; title: Botanical gardens of the dispossessed; title: Guinea's plants and European empire; title: African animals and grasses in the New World tropics; title: Memory dishes of Africa's botanical legacy.